Improvement in springs for vehicles



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Vehicle Spring. No. 113,270. Patented April 4, 1871.

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J OHN' N. DEGKE R, OF OOVINGTON, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND THOMAS J. SMITH, or SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 113,270, dated April 4, 1871; antedated March21, 1 871.

IMPROVEMENT IN SPRINGS'TOR VEHICLES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

frame of a carriage, exhibiting the application of my improved spring.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of my improved auxiliary spring and carriage spring, showing the relative position and manner of connecting the two.

A is the lower section of a carriage or wagon-spring secured to the frame of vehicle. a

B is the upper section of said spring, upon which the body of the vehicle rests.

v The adjustable auxiliary spring'O is constructed, preferably, of flat bar-steel formed in the shape of the letter V.

The ends of the spring are bent toward each other, nearly at right angles to the arms a of the spring.

At a distance from the first-made angle a' equal to, or nearly so, the thickness of the carriage-spring, a second angle is made in the ends of the auxiliary spring about equal to the angle a.

The ends of the spring trend in a direction opposite to the main arms a of the spring, and are turned up near their extreme end in a direction parallel to the carriage-spring, to which they are attached by thumb, screws D.

Theboxed ends of theauxiliary spring are pressed together and entered between the upper and lower sections of the carriage or wagon-spring; then, being freed, the ends spring apart and engage the two sections of the carriage-spring. The thumb-screw or screws are impinged upon the carriage-spring, thereby connecting the two springs together.

The herein-described auxiliary spring is designed for use in vehicles that may beoverloaded or traverse rough ways, in order-to lessen the strain upon the main spring, which, under sudden strains, is liable to be injured or broken.

In case the wagon or carriage is, from the nature of JNO. N. DECKER. 

